Monday Morning Update 5/15/23

Top News

Real-world healthcare data marketplace operator Prognos Health raises $23 million in growth equity.

The company offers life sciences customers access to the integrated lab and health record data of 325 million de-identified patients.

The co-founders are Sundeep Bhan and Jason Bhan, MD.

HIStalk Announcements and Requests

Most poll respondents say their employers haven’t dialed back remote work options.

New poll to your right or here, inspired by Dr. Jayne’s XGM recap: What behavior of fellow conference education session attendees do you find most annoying? I am most bugged by those who charge the microphone during Q&A to deliver pontification that is poorly disguised as a question, which clears the room like someone yelling “fire” in a theater. If your insecurity doesn’t allow you to sit quietly while someone else holds the audience’s attention, then sign up as a presenter next time.

My best HIMSS23 takeaway was an first-timer’s appreciation for Chicago’s chicken Vesuvio, which I made at home this weekend with great success. It sounds unexciting on paper, but is brilliant.

Welcome to new HIStalk Platinum Sponsor Lucem Health. The Raleigh, NC-based company transforms the science of clinical AI into trusted point-of-care solutions that scale. With its comprehensive, AI-agnostic platform for building, operationalizing, and improving clinical AI solutions, Lucem Health brings the full power and potential of clinical AI from the lab to the front lines of healthcare, where it can help clinicians deliver better care, improve patient outcomes, and lower costs. The company envisions a world in which clinicians detect problems before they become life-threatening and patients get world class care, everywhere. Thanks to Lucem Health for supporting HIStalk.

I found this overview of Lucem Health on YouTube.

Webinars

None scheduled soon. Previous webinars are on our YouTube channel. Contact Lorre to present or promote your own.

Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

Digital Health KC launches to encourage health technology people, especially those who worked for Cerner or other KC-based companies, to return to the area. The CEO is former Cerner executive Dick Flanigan.

Sales

• Emory Healthcare will implement NeuroFlow to provide behavioral services in a collaborative care model with its primary care clinics.

Announcements and Implementations

Victoria, BC-based Island Health celebrates Canada’s National Nurse Week by honoring the nurses who are working to implement its Oracle Cerner EHR.

The senior director of the Collaboration to Harmonize Antimicrobial Registry Measures (CHARM), which analyzes the EHRs of participating organizations for current prescribing practices, says that up to 80% of outpatient antibiotic use is inappropriate, either because the drug isn’t needed or is ordered incorrectly.

Epic updates its Epic Research Data Tracker to publish every-other-week metric updates on respiratory illnesses and other topics using data from Cosmos, allowing continuous monitoring that is often beyond the capability of public health organizations.

John Snow Labs posts demos of AI-powered models that can summarize clinical text, medical journal articles, consumer medical questions, and radiology reports.

Privacy and Security

HHS’s cybersecurity center warns that Veeam Backup and Replication software contains a vulnerability that hackers are exploiting.

Other

In England, the mother of a 19-year-old patient whose hand was bruised significantly during a blood draw shows the hospital a photo of the nurse watching soccer on his phone as he stuck her. The trust says the nurse was on break and decided to treat the patient anyway, which the mother says isn’t true. However, the trust adds that it will be more diligent about staff members using phones at work.

Sponsor Updates

• Netsmart customers celebrate key milestones at the company’s CONNECTIONS2023 conference in Washington, DC.
• Meditech recognizes the Institute for Health Metrics as their data collaborator to support and accelerate health equity at hospitals across the country.
• Surescripts releases a new episode of its There’s a Better Way Podcast, “Getting to Interoperability 2.0 with ONC’s Micky Tripathi.”
• Netsmart will integrate Findhelp’s closed-loop referral solution with its CareFabric platform.
• Magellan Healthcare details the success it has seen with NeuroFlow’s integrated behavioral healthcare solutions.
• Nordic will present at the AMIA 2023 Clinical Informatics Conference May 24 in Chicago.
• PerfectServe honors over 200 outstanding nurses in its third annual Nurses of Note Awards program.
• Tegria will exhibit at the MUSE Inspire Conference June 7-10 in Denver.
• Zynx Health parent company Hearst Health names Stanford Medicine the winner of the Hearst Health Prize in partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health.

Blog Posts

• Healthcare Hinges on Interoperability and Exchanging Quality Information (Surescripts)
• Why a 4K video about Meditech’s Might? Because it’s a once in a generation story we can all learn from (Meditech)
• Healthcare Compliance Risk Management Strategies for Effective Implementation (Net Health)
• The future of ambulatory care, part 3: The practical benefits of Dragon Medical One for ambulatory care clinicians (Nuance)
• The Top 6 Things That Pharmacies Need to Know About the Ending of the PHE (OmniSys)
• AI Interventions to Quench Burnout (Pivot Point Consulting)
• Nurses of Note Awards 2023: The Nursing Team at Blue Mountain Hospital, a Critical Access Facility (PerfectServe)
• Optimizing Front-End Revenue Cycle Management: The Power of Prior Authorization (PMD)
• Five Ways AP Automation Can Ease Burnout, Turnover in a Healthcare Organization’s Finance Department (Premier)
• The Unique Challenges Facing Caregivers of Veterans (Trualta)
• We must do better: alignment, evidence & clear care pathways are available now (Volpara Health)
• Develop a data-rich dashboard: Which medical billing metrics matter? (Waystar)
• How to Make a Hybrid PT Practice Work (WebPT)

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